Workshop on Cultural Persistence and Transmission

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The goal of this workshop is to provide a venue for the presentation and discussion of frontier research on the persistence and transmission of cultural traits like norms, preferences, beliefs, behaviours, and customs. The workshop aims to bring together scholars working either on the theoretical or the empirical analysis of determinants and consequences of cultural transmission and persistence, to facilitate a dialogue, generate new ideas, and explore opportunities for collaboration.

The workshop will be held on Thursday the 20^th and Friday the 21^st of June 2024 at the Queen’s Business School (Queen’s University Belfast) and it will only include a handful of papers (12-15) to give enough time for presentation and exchange.

The submission of extended abstracts is possible; however, the paper will be required before the workshop starts to be circulated among participants.

The submission deadline is March 31, 2024 (19:00 GMT). Decisions will be communicated by mid-April.

Participants are expected to cover their own travel and accommodation costs.

There are no submission fees.

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Keynote speakers:

Program

Wednesday the 19th of June

19:30 Informal Dinner at Holohan’s Pantry

Thursday, the 20th of June

9:00 – 9:20 Coffee/Breakfast

9:30 – 10:30 Keynote Lecture 1: Thierry Verdier (Paris School of Economics) Economic Models of Cultural Transmission

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 – 11:40 Philip R Neary (Royal Holloway University of London) Communication, Coordination and Bilingualism

11:40 – 12:20 Sebastiano Della Lena (Monash University) An Economic Model of Acculturation under Strategic Complements and Substitutes

12:20 – 13:00 Julia Zimmermann (Trinity College Dublin) The Engineering of Consent: A Network Analysis of Belief Manipulation

13:00 – 14:15 Lunch Lecture Room 4 (Riddel Hall)

14:15 – 14:55 Luca Bagnato (University of Milan) From Taxation to Fighting for the Nation: Historical Fiscal Capacity and Military Draft Evasion during WWI

14:55 – 15:35 Mariko J. Klasing (University of Groningen) Preparing Kids for Capitalism: The Effect of German Reunification on the Intergenerational Transmission of Preferences

15:35 – 16:15 Graziella Bertocchi (University of Modena & EIEF) Ancestral Inequality and Preferences for Redistribution

16:15 – 16:40 Coffee Break

16:40 – 17:20 Gustav Agneman (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Modernization and the Rise of Individualism

17:20 – 18:00 Anthony Ziegelmeyer (Queen’s Business School) Can Social Epidemics be Reversed?

20:00 Dinner at Deanes at Queens

Friday the 21st of June

9:00 – 9:30 Coffee/Breakfast

9:30 – 10:30 Keynote Lecture 2: Paola Giuliano (UCLA Anderson) Cultural Transmission in Education

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 – 11:40 Felipe Valencia (Vancouver School of Economics) The Long Shadow of the Spanish Civil War

11:40 – 12:20 James Fenske (University of Warwick) Conflict and Gender Norms

12:20 – 13:00 Fabrizio Panebianco (Cattolica University of Milan) Norms, Guilt, and Religion: Public Good Contribution among Catholics and Protestants

13:00 – 14:15 Lunch Lecture Room 3 (Riddel Hall)

14:15 – 14:55 Guillermo Woo-Mora (Paris School of Economics) On the other side of the creek: Historical exclusion, sense of place and human capital accumulation

14:55 – 15:35 Marie Beigelman (Universitat de Barcelona) Impact of Enslavement Conditions on Families

15:35 – 16:15 Aldo Elizalde (Queen’s Business School) Songlines

16:15-16:40 Coffee Break

16:30 – 17:20 Carlo Medici (Northwestern University) Closing Ranks: Organized Labor and Immigration

17:10 – 18:00 Suteau Margaux (London School of Economics) Back to the Roots: the Effect of Culture on the Gender Gap in STEM

19:45 Dinner at Mourne Seafood

Contacts: Arcangelo Dimico (a.dimico@qub.ac.uk) & Anthony Ziegelmeyer (a.ziegelmeyer@q